Quinx mentions regarding an earlier blog that Malthus and Darwin were cousins. Well, Darwin did acknowledge Malthus’s direct influence on his ‘On the Origin of Species’ but in fact it Darwin and Francis Galton, ‘father’ of eugenics, who were cousins. But both Malthus and Darwin did marry their first cousins. And just as a bonus, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who wrote ‘The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century’, with its racist and anti-Semitic themes that so appealed to Adolf Hitler, was second cousin to Neville Chamberlain, famous for waving the bit of white paper at Munich, which Hitler interpreted as a white flag…

Much more inspiring flags were on view today at Windsor Castle, for the splendidly colourful three-forces parade for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations – let tin-pot dictators everywhere tremble! And the Olympics opening ceremony organisers, who will certainly have a lot to live up to – let’s hope… Read more

Yesterday’s blog alluded to the same-sex marriage of Marx and Freud, which for complicated reasons was actually a forced marriage arranged by their philsophical heir Wilhelm Reich, the godfather of the sexual revolution, who believed society needed to free itself politically and in every other way by discarding the family and throwing off all restraints. The Sixties free-love brigade embraced his ‘philosophy’ with enthusiasm, leading to a great deal of misery, mostly for other people, especially the generations growing up in their shadow. Reich died in prison after being prosecuted for fraud – he invented a device that was supposed to measure people’s vital energy or whatnot, and the authorities burned his writings, which immediately achieved cult status, something only possible among those with drug-addled brains.

But actually the sexual revolution was the product of a three-way same-sex marriage – between Marx, Malthus and Darwin. It involved the communist… Read more

Not surprisingly, perhaps, my advice to the nation to have children in order to boost the economy has been ignored apart from a comment that having more children is the last thing Britain needs – that they will be a drain on the economy. Well, that commentator can rest assured – this government, like every government of the past forty years, takes his approach – that children are a drain on the economy. Before anyone points to family allowances in refutation of this claim, governments have taken large amounts of income in exchange for those family allowances in a sleight of hand that makes them appear virtuous and family-friendly, while picking the pockets of parents with the other hand. Partly as a result, fewer children are now being born – the current ‘boom’, heralded with dismay in some quarters, is mainly the result of immigration and women who have delayed… Read more